v18: noir&blanc

sherlene

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Montag, Juni 18

world without poverty 10:48 PM

experience at famine camp kinda made me reflect.
met lotsa people, from the past and present.
rekindled friendships, made new friends, had lotsa laughter despite the humongous hunger throbbing my stomach and the tiredness that plagued my limbs and brain.

oh well, i guess i shall just type it out in full since i doubt i'll have the time ever again to update and keep it my pensieve. hah! its gonna be pretty narrative and dry but oh well :D

sat 16june
slept at about 2am the night before, after 天使情人 and 百分百. packed my luggage and then went to sleep. haha woke up just in time so that dad could fetch me to woodlands mrt ^^.

met the class peeps, annabel, colin, tong, yewliang, weiying and zhen tang for breakfast at causeway point macs. saw familiar faces esp many from s26, some volunteering as facilitators (they had the choice to EAT during the 30 hrs! rawr. haha). after breakfast took bus to Republic Poly and then i saw alexi and zhaoey. haha.

registered and got our tees and then went to hang around finding people from the same country. yep, we were divided into 8 countries, Bangladesh (which i was in), Ethiopia, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Lesotho, Cambodia, Zambia and Myanmar. simin and kiran was in Bangladesh too. and then i met my closest friend throughout the 2 days! haha louisa! lol. we struggled through the hunger and the misery together lol.

then it was to RP's cultural centre (sickening place like some freezer) to start the clock and watched some videos about children suffering from HIV/AIDS and poverty around the world. kinda pained my heart so see so many children younger than me, who are more capable, are left to fend for themselves in the cruel world out there without parents to care for them.

its like most of them have aspirations to be teachers and doctors (99.9% of the children who were interviewed), careers that could really change one's lives- education creates beautiful minds and the wonders of medicine can heal and bloom miracles that could add rainbows to people's lives. and yet, somehow i wonder its funny how in singapore, we can dream of being tai-tais and basking in luxurious LVs, driving Ferraris, trotting around in Jimmy Choos, decked out in DKNY or Burberry while there are so many many many people out there who would just be very contented with probably a meal from Macs or a packet of M&Ms and books and pencils that could enhance their education.

and then i thought, i'm sure i'm gonna go forward to sponsor one child when i'm able and working. for sure, i would want to see that smile on that child's face. :)

alright, continuing with the experience, we gathered as countries after the start of the famine and decided on the government for Bangladesh. found out that Bangladesh was the biggest country with 160 people. saw other familiar faces from other jcs that i have never met in a long while. kinda cool. then after that got into 'families' for better organization. haha ours was the SA family. yeah yeah we were anti-social and very lazy. haha! =X then went to the main activity area, Agora Hall for a talk by the Cambodian World Vision IC about HIV/AIDS. later it was the briefing for the games section.

"Basic Instincts" as it was called, it was like some simulation exercise. we had to be crippled, suffering from HIV/AIDS, blind or mute and had to earn as much money, get vaccinated, earn food and water for our country within 2 hours. had to go round getting education, before earning a skill and then a job to earn more money. practically, there were some who went through 'dirty' means but fast money through prostitution, drug dealing or organ dealing. i 'sold' my liver for 20 ice-cream sticks (the 'money'). i didnt do the 'prostitution' though! it was like standing against some wall which said "FLESH FOR SALE" for 15 mins for 20 ice-cream sticks and the probability of getting HIV/AIDS and having to do vaccinations each hour. =/

RP was freaking huge and we had to run like 1km to the sports complex to earn our skill before going back to Agora Hall to get jobs. tired and hungery = misery!!! rawr. it was kinda fun la, some stations. like throwing my slipper down 2m and trying to hook it up with a pole since i went for fishing education. haha. then i decided to earn quick money by doing organ dealing. it was a bad choice cos i had to do 30 jumping jacks, 30 push-ups and 30 sit-ups to prove that i was healthy. but in the end i caught a fever because of the organ donation and then i had to get vaccinated by finishing 30 push-ups and 30 sit-ups more, while i was hungry and drained of my energy! lousia was worse. she went to earn water and carry up 1 carton of water bottles up and down a flight or stairs twice. whoa! kinda fun cos there were some friends i knew in charge of some stations.

it sort of dragged on and we were behind time. then, Ly Long, this young boy from Cambodia suffering from poverty came to tell his story and there was a short Q&A. after that it was the candles thingy. they turned off all the lights in Agora Hall and we were given those candle tealights to light up before placing it in the middle. after that the UN envoys (sort of our family leaders) went 1 by 1 to blow each candle out. it was a long process since there were hundred over candles for Bangladesh and like 7, 8 envoys? and then after they explained that blowing each candle out was like a life lost each day due to preventable causes and all. at first i kinda got bored watching them blow out the candles, i sort of understood the meaning but not as clear until they kinda told us. we had to share some reflections after that and my voice kinda got stuck and i sounded like i was going to break down. heh but i didnt. my voice just went missing at the spur of the moment. but it really tugged my heart strings knowing that many of us chase materialistic wants, but who actually sits down truthfully and sincerely thinking about those who are suffering in developing countries, not being able to live happily like us? and its just that maybe many of us wonder how to help them and not knowing that a small difference like $1 a day could actually help a person in the long run.

after that i couldnt really remember much but i think it was already pretty late so we went back to the sports complex to wash up and rest. the guys got the luck of sleeping in Agora Hall which was carpeted and much cooler but they had to shift their barang-barang like 1km there and then 1km back to the sports complex the next morning. oh well. haha. so i guess its fair. but then the sports complex floor was damn hard la. i mean floors are hard anyway, but still. it was quite unbearable and my sleeping bag was like damn thin, it was almost similar to a ground sheet. and the air-con wasnt cold at all. though we were sleeping near the air-con. haha. guess it was better than last year, the guys had to sleep at the gallery at our sch while the girls at the netball court in their hand-made shelters. well, it had to fulfil the theme of 'under no roof' anyway. lol. i should have gone last year! simin said it was better and more fun than this year. haha. and our sch's smaller than RP we neednt run all over the place looking for venues. =/

talking about running all over the place, we got lost trying to get back to the sports complex. people were thronging the halls and crowding exits that kinda got locked. :S and then we walked around in circles trying to find a proper unlocked exit. so dumb. so we had to go back and find another way out before the security guard finally came to open the doors for us. and it was like almost 1am already la!

played a few rounds of bridge with joanne, annabel and their friends from Lesotho. haha i was a refugee there. and then tried getting sleep. wanted to mug some econs but it was really hard cos you're tired and hungry and all you can think of is sleeping on a comfy bed with some air-con. =/ took quite a while for me to sleep cos the floor was hard and some really very 'considerate' people who were chatting so loudly after lights out were nearby. quite irritating.

sun 17june
woke up really early, like 530am to shower. haha i actually didnt hear my alarm ring, annabel had to wake up to turn it off. lol! sorry!

and then showered in the freaking icy cold water before heading for some breakfast of 1 packet drink. yes, meals were 1 packet drink each. while the rest of the time we were given free flow of water and many vending machines (snacks and flavoured drinks alike) around the campus staring at us right in the face tempting us to break the rules. but of cos we didnt. :D

went for morning worship after that but most of us fell asleep, including me. =X how sinful. but we were freaking tired. :(

went back to Agora Hall for newspaper collection briefing before heading off to Tampines for newspaper collection. so lame la. woodlands to tampines. =X the schedule wrote that journey was 1 hour but then it was only half an hour! cheat my feelings! the bus was damn nice to sleep on la. the air-con was just nice and then the seats were pretty comfy... ahh.

broken into groups and i was with half of my 'family' the day before. nikhail, kenneth and someone else i didnt really get his name. haha nikhail was hilarious trying all the chinese pick-up lines like 你好性感 but he said it to be 你好"Seng kang". ahhaha louisa and i were laughing like mad even though we barely had the energy to. then he was talking about North Indian food (he's a scholar from there) like butter chicken and pratas and curry puffs and how to cook them. lol. it was an eye-opener to talk about different cultures. haha ironic that we were freaking shit hungry but we still talked and dreamt about glorious food! lol.

combed like 20 blocks of flats for newspapers. =/ ugh. luckily almost all the blocks had lifts at each level. heng ah! if not sure faint. haha.

kinda konked out before the bus came. gabriel han the facilitator ate ice cream in front of us! rawr. :S haha oh well they had a choice to eat, encouraged to starve though. after that it was bus journey back. haha kept bobbing my head onto louisa! haha that girl is so fun to hang out with! lol, sad annabel was in some other country :(

came back and slacked all the way to the concert time. went to Agora Hall for some bridging and sleeping. haha we all just peng san-ed on the floor and didnt care about our 'image'. =/ we were all so tired and our brains were malfunctioning already.

the concert was after that. simin said it was kinda boring compared to last year's with Ronin around. this year, break dance crew, ammunition was there, an accapella group from RP and EIC was there. however, we could barely enjoy the atmosphere cos the freaking place was so blardy cold we almost got frozen. ah well.

pure joy dawned on us at the 30th hour. food! finally. 30 hours without food was really quite horrible and we were tired and all. overcomed with fatique. roar.

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yay im done! okay i shall go off soon. back to some chionging its BT2 next week! ahhhhh! everything was worth it, im really glad i went for something really meaningful :D

haha i heard we were on CNA on saturday. lol. cameraman was directly in front of me. HAHA.

p.s walao this post damn long la! =/